People
Co-leads
Stephen Mullin
Dr Stephen Mullin is Associate Professor of Neurology at UoP and Consultant Neurologist at UHPNT. Much of his research career has been spent predicting and stratifying risk of Parkinson’s disease using clinical and genomic biomarkers. His work now focuses on risk stratification and early diagnosis neurological diseases based on routinely collected data, including an UKRI MRC supported project which aims to stratify future risk of stroke. He is a member of the Health Research Authority Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) and the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Advisory Group. He is the UoP Faculty of Health lead for the group.
Michael Allen
Mike is a Senior Research Fellow in Applied Healthcare Modelling and Data Science in the University of Exeter Medical School. After nearly 20 years in Pharma R&D Drug Discovery, he switched to academia to focus on research that maximises NHS benefits from new treatments. He has a life-long interest in combining biomedical and computer sciences, and believes we're now living in the age that he so looked forward to - where computer science ('AI') is matching biomedical science in what it can offer to medicine. Currently his work mostly involves looking at variation in healthcare between hospitals, looking at what different hospitals do differently, and how that affects patient outcomes. He uses modelling and AI to ask the question "What would happen if my patient went to another hospital? What would they do, and what would the patient outcome be?"
Team
Mark Thurston
Dr Mark Thurston is a consultant musculoskeletal radiologist at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHPNT) and Clinical Lecturer at University of Plymouth (UoP). His research interests focus on the medical imaging applications of computer vision techniques. He has published numerous peer-reviewed publications on categorisation of medical imaging investigations including CT, X-rays and nuclear medicine scans. He is a member of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) imaging group.
Hongrui Wang
Dr Hongrui Wang PhD is a data scientist with background of mathematics and statistics. He is a skilled software engineer. He is particularly interested in data management, visulization, analysis and modelling for healthcare and development of relevent tools. He has been instrumental in developing the data pipeline software for anonymising DICOM image data.
Dan Browning
Daniel Browning is a Senior Physician Associate and Nurse Prescriber working in Neurology and Acute Stroke at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHPNT). He is interested in primary and secondary prevention of stroke with current experience of working within a hyperacute stroke unit as well as prior experience with acute coronary syndromes.
William Heseltine-Carp
Dr William Heseltine-Carp is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in neurology at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHPNT). His previous research has focused on the roles of neuro-inflammation in functional neurological disorders. His work now focuses on a UKRI MRC approved project in using machine learning to predict the future risk of stroke, from routinely collected hospital data.
